1.   And several smaller crosses, one made of palm fronds and pierced through with a Drug Enforcement Agency pin.

2.   A smaller cross has been made from huge hand-forged nails that once held the timbers together.

3.   Shortly before the pope arrived in Poland, the government ordered riot policemen to remove hundreds of smaller crosses erected at Auschwitz by Catholic militants.

4.   Polish courts ordered the smaller crosses removed, and convicted the priest who led the protest of inciting hatred of Jews.

5.   But removing the smaller crosses will only take the dispute back to the original question what to do with the papal cross.

6.   Cardinal Jozef Glemp and other Polish church leaders have criticized the smaller crosses near the papal cross as provocations by irresponsible people.

7.   Catholics from across Poland planted scores of smaller crosses around it to protest the demands for its removal.

8.   Church leaders softened in late August, calling for the smaller crosses to be removed but saying the papal cross must remain.

9.   Fearful that the government would cave in to Jewish demands and move the papal cross, Polish nationalists have put up the smaller crosses to try to protect it.

10.   Government spokesman Jaroslaw Sellin told journalists after the Cabinet meeting that the government also wanted the smaller crosses removed but for the papal cross to remain.